I was always really fascinated with animation, but just in a way all kids are with watching Disney movies and all that, but I had no idea how animation was done.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because it was so hands-on and physical in a way that I really liked.

I really like incorporating elements, and it's also difficult to do in stop motion, which means sometimes I run into problems.

I was one of those kids that always drew all the time.

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

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You are capable of loving. Love deeply.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.