The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

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

I do think so much of what I do is reactive to the way the world sees itself, or the way the world is being portrayed. I wanted to offer an alternative to that. Whether it is accepted or not is beside the point, but it's an alternative.

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

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

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.