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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. "

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" 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? "

" 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. "

" After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things. "

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" I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction. "

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" Writing is hard. "

" Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie. "

" '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 like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. "

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