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" You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through. "

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" I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template. "

" I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space. "

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" I really like arcade games and like the '80s and early '90s kind of games, just because there's a real kind of naivete to them, but there's like a real inventiveness to it as well. "

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" If someone asked, 'What are your films like?,' the best I can come up with is that they're, like, a fine balance between comedy and drama. And they deal mainly with the clumsiness of humanity. "

" I've always felt that I wanted to make a Marvel film... I just want to make sure I'm not making an episode. "

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