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I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.