I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see 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.

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

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

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.