If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

God always provides a pleasant memory to help ease the pain of a bad experience.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.