I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.