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

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" I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise. "

" I just want to be who I am, as I am. "

" I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. "

" 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. "

" I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves. "

" A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it. "

" The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.' "

" I am better at math than spelling. "

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

" I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. "

" Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. "

" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "

" I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already. "