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" You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' "

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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. "

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

" Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. "

" As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much. "

" Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book? "

" 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. "

" Be willing to get fired for a good idea. "

" I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. "

" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "

" I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. "

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

" I would love to make video games. "

" 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. "

" I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated. "

" I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about. "

" I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past. "

" 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 am better at math than spelling. "

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

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

" I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility. "

" I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. "

" I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already. "

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

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