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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just want to make whatever is exciting. "

" I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. "

" The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. "

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

" It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs. "

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

" I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me. "

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

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

" I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label. "

" 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. "