I just want to make whatever is exciting.

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.