There's No Story If There

Animating Is A Very Slow, Pain-staking Process And The Animators Become The Actors At That Point.

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 Just Want To Make Films That Are Personal, But Interesting To An Audience.

When You Finish Work, Practically Everybody In That Place Is Going To Watch A Movie At Night Anyway. They're Tired. They Have Dinner. They Go Up To Their Room. They're Watching Tv.

When You're Doing A Live-action Movie, You Have Your Day Set Up And You're Going To Do This Shot And This Shot, And Eventually The Sun Is Going To Go Down. It's A Sequential Race To Whatever Is Going To End The Day.