I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

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.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

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.