Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.
I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.
I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.
I like naps. I don't drink coffee.
I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.
I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.
I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.
I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.
I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.
Our subjectivity is so completely our own.
The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself.
Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.
