I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

What I feel that "Alice in Wonderland" did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.