Occupation: Film Director Birth: August 25, 1958
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way..
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual..
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is ….
I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do..
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in Th….
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child..
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks..
One person's craziness is another person's reality..
Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination..
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it..
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense..
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright..
For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the ….
I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatev….
When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in….
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?.
I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjecti….
Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To ….
When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one..
It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you..
Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dar….