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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.