Be willing to get fired for a good idea..

I just want to make whatever is exciting..

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

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

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unp….

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you li….

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

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..

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

The past is just a story we tell ourselves..

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

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

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking ….

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for….

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take i….

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respect….

Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical, it was hard. So at ….

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at l….

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or a….

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