I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

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

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

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

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