Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

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

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

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.