I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactil….

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell ….

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!".

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends..

With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I don't have to communicate….

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art..

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before..

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!.

In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. Whe….

When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with ….

The fantastical images in my works are descriptive in a different way - a metaphorical way - that removes you from reality. Then, this visually remov….

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it..

Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets a lot of strong reactions. A lot of peopl….

The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches you to put together the si….

I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in ….

Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sor….

I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the boo….

When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through ….

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas..

Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave ….

I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lo….