Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). " Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.
I'm a bit of a weird creature. . . I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.