I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.

A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as ‘blobs’.

We have to talk about it to find out what's going ... because the press, honestly, is out of control.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.