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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.

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When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.

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I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.

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I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.

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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.

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I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

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I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

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I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.

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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.

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I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.

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I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.

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I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

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I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.

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Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.

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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

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You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

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