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

I was lucky enough to know Maurice Sendak, and talked to him about doing the movie. For a while, I was really apprehensive of it, because Where The Wild Things Are is a book I love so much, and I didn't want to add something to it just to be able to make a movie, or put my stamp on it, or something like that.

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.