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There was a time when I just loved 'Indiana Jones' so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb.

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Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing.

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'Cop Car' was made with all of my friends. I wrote it with my best friend.

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You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

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When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret.

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I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.

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I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

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When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

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Since being at Marvel, I've been watching everything over and over and over again, all the movies, and seeing how all the movies connect has been very satisfying for me.

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I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: June 28th, 1981

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