My hope is that I'm going to continue to make more and more challenging work that's going to come out more and more interesting. I don't know if that will always continue to happen, but every one of my films has definitely been a progression as far as complexity of narrative, character, and plot.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

People have been screaming about the end of times forever, it's always the end of times. But there's just so much evidence that the world is changing so radically right now. How much can the world take?

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.