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"It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway."
"I'm always a sucker for a love story."
"When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like."
"The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever"
"It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about."
"My movies are not about being, but becoming."
"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."
"You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that."
"Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see."
"Forget the audience, make what you want to see"
"I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue."
"I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue."
"For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you."
"You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity."
"I got exposed to so many different cultures and people."
"It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance."
"I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making."
"I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom."
"A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor."
"I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older."