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.

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.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

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

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

What we do have is nothin' but time. Welcome to the Shawshank Redemption of late night!

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

Well Xabi is entitled to his opinion our team would never criticise another but we will look to exploit his lack of pace!

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

I do lots of activities. I hang out with friends.

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

I eat right and ensure that I burn it all by working out equally as much as I eat.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.