Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.

A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.