Women have a greater verbal capacity..

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story..

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made..

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years..

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape..

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and….

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality..

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all..

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot..

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation..

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling..

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut..

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capac….

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans..

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its ca….

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's real….

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women..

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot..

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity..

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects..

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment..