Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.