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" In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. "

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" Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way. "

" With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time. "

" My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. "

" I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.' "

" With 'Pete's Dragon,' Disney was very excited about the movie I wanted to make; they were very supportive of it, and it was a smooth process. I was really surprised by that. "

" I love the Spanish language. "

" I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore. "

" At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line. "

" I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault. "

" You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible. "

" Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not. "

" The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image. "

" With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life. "

" There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me. "

" Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes. "

" I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content. "

" Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest. "

" There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. "

" Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious. "

" I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. "

" It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so. "

" I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop. "

" I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres. "

" I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life. "

" I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me. "

" I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version. "

" Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them. "

" I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie. "