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.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

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 want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?