I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

People always say you can't win if you don't play

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes.

Better be wrong to a stranger than be wrong to your husband - Treacherous Desires Book

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.