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If I Have Ideas, I Want To Put Them In The Movie. It's Not A Minimalist Approach At All But I Feel Like It's For The Audience. It's About Seeing How Much Texture We Can Give It And Seeing How Many Things Are There For People To Latch On To... I Just Want To Do It The Way I Want And I Feel Like It Won't Be Helpful For Me If I Start Worrying About That. I Just Have To Follow My Instincts. Everyone Is Going To Respond Differently To It And Everybody's Right - That's Their Point Of View. That's How The Story Intersects With Their Lives.

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If I Have Ideas, I Want To Put Them In The Movie. It's Not A Minimalist Approach At All But I Feel Like It's For The Audience. It's About Seeing How Much Texture We Can Give It And Seeing How Many Things Are There For People To Latch On To... I Just Want To Do It The Way I Want And I Feel Like It Won't Be Helpful For Me If I Start Worrying About That. I Just Have To Follow My Instincts. Everyone Is Going To Respond Differently To It And Everybody's Right - That's Their Point Of View. That's How The Story Intersects With Their Lives.

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The Things That Are More My Own Style Are Something That I Don't Really Have To Think About. The Only Time I Have To Think About Them Is If I Want To Force Myself Not To Do It The Way I Do It.

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I Want To Try Not To Repeat Myself. But Then I Seem To Do It Continuously In My Films. It's Not Something I Make Any Effort To Do. I Just Want To Make Films That Are Personal, But Interesting To An Audience. I Feel I Get Criticized For Style Over Substance, And For Details That Get In The Way Of The Characters. But Every Decision I Make Is How To Bring Those Characters Forward.

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I Usually Set Aside A Lot Of Time In Advance Of A Movie With Important Roles For Kids To Search, But When You Have Great Ones, They Can Be A Real Ace In The Hole.

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Any Time Someone Doesn't Like One On The First Run, I Hope They Will Give It Another Shot. At Least We'll Get Another Chance. But I Do Feel, In My Approach, I Am Not Really A Minimalist. I Don't Like To Leave Out Ideas That I Think Could Add Something To The Story. Sometimes, You Can't Quite Pick Up On All Of It In One Sitting. It's Not By Design. But Maybe It's A Side Effect Of My Approach.

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A Lot Of People Have Said My Movies Are All The Same. But I Don't Actually Make An Effort To Have A Style. I'm Usually Just Thinking Of What Can We Do To Make It Funnier Or More Interesting Or Just Kind Of Refine It And It Ends Up Like That.

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When Something Is Discovered By People In Movie Theaters, It's Discovered By People Who Are All Together, And There's A Sort Of Feeling Of An Event About It. And When It's On Video, It's Like Something Is Being Discovered In The Library Or Something. It's Like Having A Second Life In Public Libraries. It's Just Like Individuals, And It's Less Of A... We Can't Participate In It The Same Way.

Mostly With Commercial Work, It Isn't About Personal Vision. It's Not A Personal Effort, It's Work For Hire. That's More My Attitude With Those. You Just Want To Be A Professional Worker.

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