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

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" 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. "

" There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting. "

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" Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again. "

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" Be willing to get fired for a good idea. "

" I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label. "

" I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility. "

" I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. "

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

" If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go. "

" I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other. "

" 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. "

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

" I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. "

" If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included. "

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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. "

" I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. "

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