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" Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way. "

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" I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct. "

" 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. "

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" I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas. "

" I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset. "

" The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old. "

" The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity. "

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" 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. "

" Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes. "

" 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. "

" I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look. "

" David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do. "

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" Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out. "

" I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production. "

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

" 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. "