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" So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with. "

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" I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand. "

" The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?' "

" Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures. "

" Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit. "

" I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it. "

" I know I have trouble watching my own films. "

" No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play. "

" I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it. "

" Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them. "

" I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity. "

" Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy. "

" I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version. "

" I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film. "

" I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them. "

" I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time. "

" I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. "

" I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic. "

" I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience. "

" There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me. "

" I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me. "

" If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make. "

" In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection. "

" There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid. "

" When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there. "

" Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest. "

" I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content. "

" I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it. "

" I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them. "

" Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. "

" If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking. "