Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.