Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.

Art has always been my salvation.