Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

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