My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
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 think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
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.
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.
There’s something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
I am not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.
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 further in.
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.
Son, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.
Good morning starshine the earth says hello...
I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.
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 dark. It has a positive sense to it.
I’m gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don’t.