I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!