I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

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

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

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I talked to somebody, and they're like, "Oh, I love that book. I love this part of it," or, "This is what it means to me." And it's like, "Well, I don't know. I guess that's not what I'm making the movie about." But very early on, I don't know, we sort of let go of that fear.