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It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.

I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.