I Was Never Interested In

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.

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.

I Always Treated The Science Thing And The Art Thing As Quite Similar Thematically.

People Always Think I Get Really Good Reviews, But I Don't. That's Why I Don't Go On The Internet Much - Because You Can Go Down A Dark Hole Looking At Stuff. Once, I Clicked On My Name And Freaked Out. It's Too Bizarre, It's Too Weird, It's Too Unsettling.

There Was One Moment, And It Happened In School. I Had A Big Final Exam - We Were Supposed To Write A 20-page Report On This Book About Houdini. I Probably Would Have Loved Reading It, But I Didn't, So I Just Decided To Make A Little Super-8 Movie Based On It. I Tied Myself To The Railroad Tracks And All That. I Mean, This Is Kid Stuff, But It Impressed The Teacher, And I Got An A. And That Was Maybe My First Turning Point, When I Said, 'yeah, I Wouldn't Mind Being A Filmmaker.'