"I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'"

"Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic."

"I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies."

"The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds."

"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."

"It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny."

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."

"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."