Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please. " Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.
By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.
The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.
There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.
I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
Animals are not here for our entertainment.
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.
Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister. ' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.