What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

There's so much work in making movies, it's so easy to tear one down. When I watch a movie, even one that I don't particularly enjoy, I'm constantly impressed at the work that's in it. I respect the craftsmen and women. I tolerate a lot of movies that maybe other people don't, just because I know what goes into them.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.