“I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings...” — Morris Gleitzman Quote

“I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.”

“Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.”

“I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.”

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.”

“Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.”

“I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.”