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" I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated. "

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" The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches. "

" Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again. "

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" Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos. "

" As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy. "

" I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is. "

" I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood. "

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

" Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment. "

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

" If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?' "

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

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" I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out. "

" 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. "

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" You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. "