Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

It's nice to be taken seriously.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

A deep soul lives in conscious awareness of eternity, not simply today.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Everything is possible to him that dares.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Accusing a home school kid of missing out on ‘socialization’ is like accusing a work-at-home entrepreneur of missing out on corporate politics.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.