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

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

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

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

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

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

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