The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.