When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.