It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.