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The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

We need people who are open to doing something with theme, something with a cartoonish twist.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.