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

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

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

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

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.