I would love to make video games.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

I am better at math than spelling.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

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

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

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

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

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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