I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.