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" Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. "

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" Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky. "

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" When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world. "

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" To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride. "

" I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit. "

" I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences. "

" I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. "

" I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older. "

" I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. "

" I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently. "

" There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'. "

" Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. "

" I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore. "

" Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. "

" If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time. "

" Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. "

" I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation. "

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" I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. "

" I'm not a comic book guy at all. "

" I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. "

" As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it. "

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" I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion. "

" I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period. "

" I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. "