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" The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up in the '80s, so that's more of an interesting time to me. "

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" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "

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Walk

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" I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it. "

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End

" You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films. "

" My mom was really cool. "

" There's something messed up with my brain. "

" I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. "

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" That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience. "

" Show me a man who wouldn't give it all up for Emma Stone, and I'll show you a liar. "

" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

" We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it. "

" Freedom is such a gift. "

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Gift

" I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie. "

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Know

Violence

" Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere. "

" I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I'm making 'The Blair Witch Project' - something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people. "

" I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies. "

Ryan Gosling

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" I wish I could be Peter Falk. "

" I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to. "

" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "

" There's good things about going to church. "

" You learn from all directors, all these guys. "

" I'd like to see some Broadway shows at some point in time. "

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" I got a Twitter because some guy was pretending to be me. "

" Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds. "

" I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines. "

" You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. "

" I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot. "

" Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know? "

" You can't geek out with a lot of people about Linda Manz. "

" I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. "

" I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion. "