Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about. "

Related Quotes:

" I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it. "

" I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring. "

" Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it. "

" Writing is hard. "

" I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman. "

" After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. "

" On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments. "

" I just want to make whatever is exciting. "

" If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. "

" Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. "

" I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made. "

" I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. "

" The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected. "

" I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do. "

" There's a difference between stress and pressure. "

" I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do. "

" As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. "

" I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes. "

" I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. "

" I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up. "

" Be willing to get fired for a good idea. "

" I like Kanye, and I care about him. "

" You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in. "

" I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. "

" I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. "

" There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.' "

" I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past. "

" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map. "

" Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie. "

" Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.' "