I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sort of fantasy as well. Most stories are not going to tell the deep suffering of every day. No book prepared me for the suffering I would experience in life because the word "suffering" does not even describe what the suffering is. No story is going to tell you that, and no words can tell you that.

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!