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The Great Thing About Visual Horror Films Is There's Real Potential For Strong, Beautiful Imagery. It's The One Genre That Really Lends Itself To Creating Strong Images. And I've Always Loved That Idea Of Windmills - Your Mind Aimlessly Spinning.

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.

Anybody Who Knows Me Knows I Would Never Read A Comic Book.

In Hollywood, They Think Drawn Animation Doesn't Work Anymore, Computers Are The Way. They Forget That The Reason Computers Are The Way Is That Pixar Makes Good Movies. So Everybody Tries To Copy Pixar. They're Relying Too Much On The Technology And Not Enough On The Artists.

I've Always Liked Monster Movies And I've Always Been Fascinated By - Again, Growing Up In A Culture Where Death Was Looked Upon As A Dark Subject And Living So Close To Mexico Where You See The Day Of The Dead With The Skeletons And It's All Humor And Music And Dancing And A Celebration Of Life In A Way. That Always Felt More Of A Positive Approach To Things. I Think I Always Responded To That More Than This Dark, Unspoken Cloud In The Environment I Grew Up In.