Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people….

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran q….

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of….

I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is so….

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love..

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told..

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace..

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders..

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work..

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room..

Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What woul….

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world ….

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does..

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movi….

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at..

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas..

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret.