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" Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy. "

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" I'm sentimental to a fault. "

" I've always endeavored to make movies with my friends. "

" I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic. "

" I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level. "

" Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way. "

" I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well. "

" 'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material. "

" I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons. "

" Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. "

" I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. "

" I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct. "

" If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make. "

" I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life. "

" I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis. "

" My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters. "

" When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide. "

" I know I have trouble watching my own films. "

" I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience. "

" I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them. "

" I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha. "

" With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life. "

" The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity. "

" I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on. "

" I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations. "

" No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play. "

" When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could. "

" In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. "

" I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it. "