I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.