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.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

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

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

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.