I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators..

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page ….

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away..

People are very harsh critics of animated humans..

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well..

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for. Stop-motion has a c….

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards'….

I feel like what we love to do is solve problems. If it's easy to solve, we find a more difficult one. There's always a way. In our world, we can bui….

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy hors….

I get rewarded virtually every day with something amazing to see - whether it's a new shot, a miniature sweater, someone who's figured out how to mak….

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like ….

I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments. There's hair, costume, ….

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see..

It's nice to be taken seriously..

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along..

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies..

'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it t….

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens..

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make..

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing..

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the gr….