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

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

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.

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

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.

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

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