It’s not so important finding somebody that has had the experience. It’s more finding somebody who has the right taste and qualities, because I feel like you can’t teach somebody taste, and I want to be with somebody whose taste is going to teach me something.
Spike Jonze, explaining to the Chicago Tribune why he hired a writer who had never written a film, and a child who had never acted before, to make Where the Wild Things Are. (via chartier)