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 some ways I'm very structured.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

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.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.