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.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

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

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

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.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.