I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

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

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.

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

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

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

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.