The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

Stories change the world.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.