I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.