Because I'm traveling so much, Stockholm has become more and more a place for me to recharge and be creative, and then I head back on the road again.

I have to sell my idea, but they want it to be sold. I don't think I've ever done anything anyone's regretted.

Even in Los Angeles, I stop the car and walk. People look at me and think I am lost or something, they stop and ask if they can help me.

I am a very spread out type of director as I just love working in all of these different worlds; I go from commercials to music videos to art projects.

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.