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

I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

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

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

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.

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

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

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'

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

I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

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.

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

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

I like Kanye, and I care about him.

I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.

There's a difference between stress and pressure.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

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

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

I would love to make video games.

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

I'm not a film-snob.

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

Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

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

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

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

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

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.

I am better at math than spelling.

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

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

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

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

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

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

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

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

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

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