I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.