Working With Kids Is Usually Very Fun.

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

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.

Some Of The Ideas Are Kind Of Inspired By The Songs, And I Always Want To Use Music To Tell The Story And Give The Movie A Certain Kind Of Mood. That's Always Essential To Me.

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.