If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.