Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

I find Hollywood gives these pat stories, and they're reassuring stories, and I don't really want to give people that. Hollywood does all that work. I'm offering, sometimes, an alternative to that. The answers aren't black-and-white. There may not even be answers in certain instances. The ground is not necessarily solid, either. So you've got to keep awake the whole time, even after the movie is over.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

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