The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn’t really see.
And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...
Everything in this room is edible. Even I’m edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
I’m a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.
He can’t fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!
I think of Ray Harryhausen’s work – I knew his name before I knew any actor or director’s names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that’s what made me interested in animation: His work.
Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.
My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.
It’s like getting into film – I didn’t say early on, ‘I’m going to become a filmmaker,’ ‘I’m going to show my work at MoMA.’ When you start to think those things, you’re in trouble.
I’ve always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don’t think like that because I get uncomfortable.
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.
When it comes to art and science, people don’t like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they’re closed off about it.
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t the greatest sports person.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
It’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.
I am not a big technology person. I don’t go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it’s private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.
I wouldn’t know a good script if it bit me in the face.
I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company – there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.
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.
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.