A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Make the best of the time you have left, live like there is no tomorrow.

You have found love in your heart - and out of small changes come great things.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Inventors don't have time for married life.

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!