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Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.
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Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.
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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.
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There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
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I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.
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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.
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Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
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Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
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Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.
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A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.
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The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'
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I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.
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As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
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I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.
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I am better at math than spelling.
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The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.
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The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first.
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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.
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I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.
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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.
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I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
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Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
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When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
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After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.
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As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
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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.
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Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.
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Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.
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I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label.
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There's a difference between stress and pressure.
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On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.
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You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.'
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Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.
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There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.
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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'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.
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I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.
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'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.
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I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
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I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
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I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
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I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
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I'm not a film-snob.
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I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is.
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I just want to be who I am, as I am.
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Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
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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.
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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.
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We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.
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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.
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