It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.