"I didn’t know that people could be bigoted even as they were smiling at you. It’s hard to understand when you see peo…"

"At some point, political pragmatism has to reckon with the reality of climate change. You can’t negotiate with scienc…"

"This problem is so much bigger than individual bad cops. There is a separate legal and political framework that shiel…"

"Look, I know this seems like the part where I make an impassioned argument for why immigrants are good for America. Y…"

"We eventually transitioned out of shock and into mourning. As Muslim Americans, however, we also had to contend with …"

"[Responding to the perceived surrealism of Clangers] They're surreal but logical. I have a strong prejudice against f…"

"We would go to the BBC once a year, show them the films we'd made, and they would say, "Yes, lovely, now what are you…"

"That was all, but I was fizzing with excitement. It didn't matter what the picture was of. It didn't matter that Mast…"

"I was also invited to give a couple of informal seminars to the Animation School at the RCA. These were so informal t…"

"The films we made were aimed at the Head of Department at the BBC, who was about 57 at the time, and she was a nice l…"