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.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

I'm German, after all.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.