Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.