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Working With Kids Is Usually Very Fun. They Get So Into Movie And They're Up For Anything. Usually They're Having Such An Exciting Experience, Everybody Feels That.

If I Have Ideas, I Want To Put Them In The Movie. It's Not A Minimalist Approach At All But I Feel Like It's For The Audience. It's About Seeing How Much Texture We Can Give It And Seeing How Many Things Are There For People To Latch On To... I Just Want To Do It The Way I Want And I Feel Like It Won't Be Helpful For Me If I Start Worrying About That. I Just Have To Follow My Instincts. Everyone Is Going To Respond Differently To It And Everybody's Right - That's Their Point Of View. That's How The Story Intersects With Their Lives.

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.

I Chose Philosophy Because It Sounded Like Something I Ought To Be Interested In. I Didn't Know Anything About It, I Didn't Even Know What It Was Talking About. What I Really Spent My Time Doing In Those Years Was Writing Short Stories. There Were All Sorts Of Interesting Courses, But What I Really Wanted To Do Was Make Stories One Way Or Another.

Kids Are Always Open To Anything. It's Very Rare That A Kid Isn't Extremely Eager To Make You Happy.