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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box.
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I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.
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I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.
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Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.
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I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.
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I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.
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The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.
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A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!
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For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.
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If I get a gig or I don't get a gig, I really have never, ever, ever cared.
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When 'Blade Runner' came out, and especially, even actually when 'Alien' came out, it kind of changed how all science fiction movies were designed after that. And that was a really great thing. Now we're watching a lot of movies that are Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of 'Blade Runner.'
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I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That's the thing that I love doing, and I've just never been able to do it.
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