I Guess When I Think About It,

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.

Any Time Someone Doesn't Like One On The First Run, I Hope They Will Give It Another Shot. At Least We'll Get Another Chance. But I Do Feel, In My Approach, I Am Not Really A Minimalist. I Don't Like To Leave Out Ideas That I Think Could Add Something To The Story. Sometimes, You Can't Quite Pick Up On All Of It In One Sitting. It's Not By Design. But Maybe It's A Side Effect Of My Approach.

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.

And I Wanted To Do A Movie [moonrise Kingdom] About A Childhood Romance - A Very Powerful Experience Of Childhood Romance. About What It's Like To Just Be Blindsided, When You're In Fifth Grade Or Sixth Grade, By These Kinds Of Feelings. Along The Way, I Sort Of Mixed In Some Interest In "young Adult Fantasy" Writing.