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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself. "

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" I like Kanye, and I care about him. "

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" You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' "

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" 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. "

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" Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.' "

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

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" I would love to make video games. "

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

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" Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. "

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" I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction. "

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

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" Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums. "

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" I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers. "

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" I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" There's a difference between stress and pressure. "

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" I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it. "

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" 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. "

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" I wasn't a film kid. "

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" We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize. "

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" '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. "

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