Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

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

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

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