I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.