Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.