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Sometimes When You're Editing A Movie, You Have The Thing That You Don't Expect - Which Is You Make It Longer And Longer As You Go Along.

You Don't Do Background Music The Way A Lot Of More Conventional Films Do. The Music Is Often Kind Of A Character In Your Films To The Extent That Sometimes You Stop And Watch Someone Perform A Song.

Any Romantic Feelings For A 12-year-old Are Like Entering Into A Fantasy World.

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.