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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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Are you in my dream too?
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.