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" When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there. "

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" I like to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas. "

" I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity. "

" I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way. "

" I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life. "

" I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. "

" Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. "

" A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in. "

" I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it. "

" One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day. "

" I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis. "

" If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking. "

" I'm sentimental to a fault. "

" I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well. "

" With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life. "

" I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me. "

" I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres. "

" I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand. "

" I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends. "

" I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them. "

" I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production. "

" I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look. "

" Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them. "

" My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. "

" One of my earliest memories, movie-related or otherwise, is of seeing a man dunking a man's head in a toilet on television, and my mom telling me that this is what would happen to me if I ever joined the Army. It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I would discover that this was a scene from 'The Great Santini,' starring Robert Duvall. "

" One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college. "

" I love the Spanish language. "

" I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop. "

" I can't watch my movies at their premieres - I learned that lesson the hard way. "

" At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line. "

" I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them. "