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

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

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

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

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

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.

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.