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.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.