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" There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them. "

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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. "

" When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. "

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

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

" 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 guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other. "

" Our subjectivity is so completely our own. "

" I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. "

" 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 wasn't a film kid. "

" Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really. "

" 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. "

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

" If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?' "

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" The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected. "

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" I just want to be who I am, as I am. "

" 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. "

" What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio. "

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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. "