I am better at math than spelling.

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 feel like everything I make is personal to me.

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.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

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

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.