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

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

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

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

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.