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Hahaha! My wife says you NEVER want to go food shopping with me, because I just stare blankly at shelves for hours. And if she tells me to go pick up something in aisle 10, I completely forget by the time I'm there. I get lost.

The quest of the sperm for the egg. It's a quest movie.

No, in fact my first grade teacher once said to my parents in a parent-teacher conference is that "One thing she knows for sure is that I would never do anything creative."

But I guess my whole life goal was to prove her wrong, haha!

Her name was Mrs. Pigeon.

You know, I didn't study animation in school. I had an idea to make 2 chairs have sex. And you know, at the time I was young and pretty poor and I realized that i had to figure out how to make this idea, I just thought the most logical way to do it was to take the actual chairs, bring them to a roof, and bring them to life through stop-motion animation. And so I taught myself how to animate. I was living in a bachelor pad in NYC at the time, and I started ordering doll furniture from eBay. And I would stay up late at night animating the doll furniture to teach myself how to animate little chairs. And then when I was ready, I shot the film on the roof somewhere in the East Village. My roommates thought it was pretty strange, all this doll furniture just showing up at the house.

Well, a couple years back i was in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and there was this Hobart streamliner deli-slicer sitting on a pedestal. And I immediately started thinking "That thing is SO cool, what would I slice in it, what would my meat be?"

And the first thing that popped into my head was that a boxing glove looks just like cold cuts. A good italian ham.

So that was really the central image i really liked - a boxing glove, knuckles to the blade, slicing it to see what comes out the other side. And I built the entire film around that specific image.