Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.