I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

I do like to be surprised.

There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

In some ways I'm very structured.