The Movies I Make Tend Not To

Animating Is A Very Slow, Pain-staking Process And The Animators Become The Actors At That Point.

My Experience With Casting Children Is That... The Whole Movie Is Going To Rest On Their Shoulders, So You Have To Set Aside Time And Wait For The Perfect People To Appear.

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.

If Somebody Asks Me About The Themes Of Something I'm Working On, I Never Have Any Idea What The Themes Are. . . . Somebody Tells Me The Themes Later. I Sort Of Try To Avoid Developing Themes. I Want To Just Keep It A Little Bit More Abstract. But Then, What Ends Up Happening Is, They Say, 'well, I See A Lot Here That You Did Before, And It's Connected To This Other Movie You Did,' And . . . That Almost Seems Like Something I Don't Quite Choose. It Chooses Me.

Anytime I Make A Movie, I Really Have Absolutely No Idea How It's Going To Go Over. I've Had The Whole Range Of Different Kinds Of Reactions.