I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.

I am proud to be an African.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.