I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

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.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

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 remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.