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

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

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.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

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

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

Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical, it was hard. So at the end we started getting down to panic time, and we still hadn't found our Max. And we decided to go about it a different way. We said, "Let's just find friends of ours that live in interesting cities in the country that maybe aren't as big, and people that don't do casting." And thinking maybe you find a place that has an artistic community, maybe we'll find some interesting kids from there.