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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.