My Experience With Casting Children Is That...

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.

Sometimes When You're Editing A Movie, You Have The Thing That You Don't Expect - Which Is You Make It Longer And Longer As You Go Along.

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.

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.

I Just Now Put [robert Altman] Down Feeling Heartbroken But Happily And Deeply Inspired. . . . Wonderful.