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

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

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

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

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

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

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.