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

When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.

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

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I don't have to communicate my idea to anyone else, I can keep the feeling of the story, the story arc and structure in my head.

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"