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" 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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" You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. "

" 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. "

" I am better at math than spelling. "

" Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it. "

" Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. "

" The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first. "

" 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. "

" Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. "

" I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves. "

" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. "

" Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. "

" Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map. "

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

" You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?' "

" I feel like everything I make is personal to me. "

" 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 would love to make video games. "

" I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. "

" If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. "

" 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. "