Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.