I was lucky enough to know Maurice Sendak, and talked to him about doing the movie. For a while, I was really apprehensive of it, because Where The Wild Things Are is a book I love so much, and I didn't want to add something to it just to be able to make a movie, or put my stamp on it, or something like that.

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

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

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

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

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