I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.