My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.
I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.
In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.
One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
What I feel that "Alice in Wonderland" did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined.
You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.
I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.
