Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy. With Complications, I navigate my character Samantha Ellison through some really emotionally challenging times.

Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.