Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.

Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.