I just want to make whatever is exciting.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I talked to somebody, and they're like, "Oh, I love that book. I love this part of it," or, "This is what it means to me." And it's like, "Well, I don't know. I guess that's not what I'm making the movie about." But very early on, I don't know, we sort of let go of that fear.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.