“ I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. ”

“ I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. ”

“ When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. ”

“ The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. ”

“ Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. ”

“ What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything. ”