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" Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life. "

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

" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map. "

" 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. "

" After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. "

" As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much. "

" I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. "

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

" Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie. "

" Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. "

" When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker. "

" 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 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 think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. "

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

" 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 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. "

" The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them. "

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" I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up. "