Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

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.

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

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.