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" Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. "

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" Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck. "

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" My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time. "

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" Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will. "

" I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. "

" Casting is storytelling. "

" Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. "

" What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power. "

" Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. "

" The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization. "

" I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you hate, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that you're close to finished. "

" The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. "

" You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed. "

" That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show. "

" Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. "

" What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful. "

" 'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes. "

" Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that. "

" Remember to always be yourself. "

" I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. "