You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.