If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

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

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

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 like naps. I don't drink coffee.

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.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.