I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

Maybe one is enough

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.