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"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
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"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work."
Work
"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
Rules
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
Story
"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
Work
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."
Disney
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