Maxim Interview
In an interview with Maxim, Schwartzman gives his thoughts on appearing in Moonrise Kingdom:
I would say that it’s an incredibly funny and poignant film about young love, and the dreams that you can have when you’re young. It takes place on an island, and is about a 12-year-old Khaki Scout who meets a 12-year-old girl on the other side of the island, and they fall in love and hatch a plan to run away from their lives; they’re not having good lives at home. It’s also about all the adults—who are in various stages of love falling apart—chasing them. I’ll just say it: It’s a giant adventure-chasing movie centered on 12-year-olds who are in love.
The Talks interview
Schwartzman gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses watching his mother in films, and what it was like growing up.
When I was born my mom didn’t work as much and she really was just focused on raising us. She is a cinephile and an audiophile but she is not too interested in the whole schmooze and the more business side of things. We were kept away from a lot of the vultures. She was protective in that way; we didn’t really grow up on a film set. I have no memories of being on film sets, I have memories of playing baseball. Also I wouldn’t remember those things because I was much more interested in music and stuff.