I like hiring people based on a feeling – this person gets it – rather than what they’ve done in the past.
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 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 angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we get older.
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 unpredictable.
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 respectful of that. But I’m never going to compromise.
You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.
I like naps. I don’t drink coffee.
Don’t differentiate between ‘This is a job’ and ‘This is what I’m doing for fun.’ It’s all simultaneous.
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 think because I’m not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They’re drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they’re not tortured about it.
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don’t think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
The past is just a story we tell ourselves.
I just want to make whatever is exciting.
I don’t understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.