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Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

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?

Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

For some of us, Halloween is everyday.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

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.

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.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Get away from meeeee!" Edgar -Frankiewinnie

Every day is Halloween, isnt it? For some of us ...

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing ...

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Good morning starshine the earth says hello....

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said I think I need a hair.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works?
Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.

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'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Half the fun is plan to plan

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.

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know ... a regular scientist just was no un.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

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.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

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 always liked strange characters.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you ... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.