I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

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

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

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 wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

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