The Only Thing That Takes Away From

That's The Kind Of Movie That I Like To Make, Where There Is An Invented Reality And The Audience Is Going To Go Someplace Where Hopefully They've Never Been Before. The Details, That's What The World Is Made Of.

The Kids Are The Ones That Have A Clarity About What They Want. They Don't Have Any Wisdom, But They Do Have A Clear Understanding About What They Want To Have Happen.

Do You Know How Writers Often Say The Characters Take Over... But That Is More Or Less What It Always Feels Like To Me, Too. Even Though That's Just A Way Of Describing How Your Brain Is Working, It's Still What You Tend To Feel.

People Often Call And Say: "can You Help Me To Get Bill Murray In Our Movie." But I'm Always Like, "well I Don't Know How To Do That!" I've Sometimes Tried And Not Been Able To Get Him But Then I'll Suddenly Be Very Surprised By The Thing That He Will Suddenly Decide To Do.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I Got Used To Working With Animated Storyboards As A Way Of Planning For The Shoot. We Did A Lot Of Sequences That Way With This Movie. Partly As A Result Of That, I Decided To Build More Sets In Order To Do Certain Shots.