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.

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

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 definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

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.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.