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“Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.”
“My brother and I played D&D. We just weren't particularly great at it.”
“Yeah, if I'm fried mentally, incapable of directing for a second, Ross is there and will take over. Or at least, together we can somehow manage make it through the day.”
“We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.”
“When we were kids, the type of friends we hung out with were more creative types.”
“We lived in an ordinary suburb and had an ordinary childhood. It didn't feel like the 'South.' Everyone says Durham is a bunch of northern yankees transplanted to North Carolina. The stereotypical South does exist - if you drove 10 miles in the wrong direction you'd be right in the middle of it. We didn't grow up with that.”
“Us and everyone in Hollywood puts so much time and effort and money into getting things to look just right and when you see it in someone's home, it looks like it was shot on an iPhone.”
“I think we're very hard on ourselves and hard on our work.”
“The monsters and creatures were always scarier when they felt very real and tangible, and there's something about CG that lessens the impact of it.”
“If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.”
“You know, there's nothing in 'E.T.' that earmarks it as really '80s.”
“I'm as far from a city boy as you can get.”
“We started making movies in the third grade.”
“We were such movie nerds - I hate to say this, but yeah, we would just listen to movie soundtracks growing up.”
“We're really tough on everything we do.”
“We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.”
“I always loved fantasy, or the fantastical.”
“When we saw 'The Knick' or 'True Detective,' they had very distinct scores that were doing very distinct things.”
“When we were kids, every time you left the house with your friends you had it in the back of your head that you could go on a crazy adventure just like the characters in those movies we loved. That's hard to do if you've got your parents constantly texting you.”
“We're from the South.”