I've Always Loved Stop Motion Animation And

The Animators Bring Their Own Spontaneity To It As Well, Because When They Do A Take Of A Shot It Really Is Like Just One Continuous Activity For Them. They Launch Into It And Do It, And They're Not Even Quite Sure How It's Going To Turn Out When They're Doing It. They're Sort-of Sculpting Their Way Through A Scene And Trying To Make This Inanimate Object Alive.

It's Not Usually That Great Of An Idea To Read Lots Of Reviews Of Your Movies, Because Even If Somebody's Saying Nice Things, There'll Still Be Something In There That Pushes The Wrong Button, And It's Not Really That Helpful.

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 Don't Really Wanna Think About Themes. I Wanna Just Think About The Experience Of The Movie. I Feel Like, As Soon As I Reduce It To A Theme, Once I Write That Sentence, It Won't Be That Great. I Feel Like There's More Potential For It To Mean Something Interesting If I'm Not Forcing It To Mean Something I've Already Decided.

I Love Working With Actors. That's What The Set Really Is, For Me. It's My Time With The Actors.