People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?
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 good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
I always liked strange characters.
I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
It’s really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it’s great.
Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
I’ve always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they’d still say I’m a dark personality.
If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
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.
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.
One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
I don’t really dream, I space out during the day – that’s one of my problems wonder off when someone’s talking to me. I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
Half the fun is plan to plan.