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" Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month. "

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" When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world. "

" There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me. "

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

" After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things. "

" I like naps. I don't drink coffee. "

" I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. "

" Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. "

" I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters. "

" 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. "

" There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting. "

" Our subjectivity is so completely our own. "

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

" I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it. "

" 'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me. "

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

" I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships. "

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

" What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio. "

" The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself. "

" I feel like everything I make is personal to me. "

" Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. "

" 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. "

" If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go. "

" A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from. "

" I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate. "