One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness. . . the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and. . . There's only ever been. . . there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.