One Of The Things That We Were

I Feel Any Time You Enter A Dream World It's Like You're Working Out Things, It's All Inside Your Mind And You're Working It Out, Be It Dorothy In The Wizard Of Oz, Or The Kids In Narnia, They Go Through This Weird Journey That's Not Real, And They're Going Through This Journey Psychologically. It's That Journey Of Discovery, Of Getting Onself Together, That Fantasy And Fairy Tales Are So Good At. And While Some People Still Look Upon Them As Completely Unrealistic, For Me They're More Real Than Most Things That Are Perceived As Real.

I Started To Do Stop-motion When I Was A Kid. You Take A Super 8 And Make Some Models, And Move, Click, Move, Click. All That. I Love All Forms Of Animation, But There Is Something Unique And Special To Stop-motion: It's More Real And The Set Is Lit Like A Set. But I Think It's Also A Kind Of Lonely And Dark Thing To Want To Do.

I'm Going To Put That On My Gravestone. "he Created Such A Category Of Unwanted Pop Culture - Famous For Directing Unwanted Cultural References".

Nobody Had His [ed Wood's] Style. That's Something I Try To Do In My Films. You Have Your Own Kind Of Cryptic Messages In There - Cryptic Things That Most People Wouldn't Understand But Are Important To You. Things That Kind Of Keep You Going Through The Process.

I Think The Thing Is That You're Very Affected By Your Early Life, And I Think That If You Ever Had That Feeling Of Outsider, Or Loneliness Or Whatever, It Just Doesn't Leave You. You Can Be Happy And Successful, Whatever, But I Think That Thing Stays Inside Of You. It Doesn't Ever Really Leave You. You Kind Of Always Will Have That.