The idea for "Shark Boy and Lava Girl" was cooked up by the director's 7-year-old son Racer Max Rodriguez (who gets co-writer screen credit), and it has the thin, underdeveloped feeling of a child ...

I was so excited. I have adored Sasha for so long — ' [The Adventures of] Shark Boy and Lava Girl,' everything she's been in. It was so surreal, and it was so sweet of her. I was so happy." ...