The Subject Of An Outsider Who Becomes

Anytime I Make A Movie, I Really Have Absolutely No Idea How It's Going To Go Over. I've Had The Whole Range Of Different Kinds Of Reactions.

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.

When Something Is Discovered By People In Movie Theaters, It's Discovered By People Who Are All Together, And There's A Sort Of Feeling Of An Event About It. And When It's On Video, It's Like Something Is Being Discovered In The Library Or Something. It's Like Having A Second Life In Public Libraries. It's Just Like Individuals, And It's Less Of A... We Can't Participate In It The Same Way.

A Lot Of People Have Said My Movies Are All The Same. But I Don't Actually Make An Effort To Have A Style. I'm Usually Just Thinking Of What Can We Do To Make It Funnier Or More Interesting Or Just Kind Of Refine It And It Ends Up Like That.