It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment." I feel like people go to movies for more than that.

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.

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

What you think, so you will become.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.