“Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.”
“I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.”
“Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.”
“I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.”
“I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.”
“Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.”
“Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.”
“If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.”
“This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.”
“There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.”