I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

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

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

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

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

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