I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.