Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's mind. But animation takes a step away. It creates a very stylized landscape, but at the same time it is the form that is best able to address the reality of being alive and being in pain.

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.