I just want to make whatever is exciting.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

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

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

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

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.