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" The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself. "

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" Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. "

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" I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone. "

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" I wasn't a film kid. "

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" 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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" I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman. "

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" As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much. "

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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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" There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now. "

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" When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker. "

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

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" Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book? "

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" Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. "

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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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" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. "

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" Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. "

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" I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out. "

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" The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches. "

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" Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos. "

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" As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate. "

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" I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot. "

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

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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. "

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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 started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. "

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