Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.

Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...

Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds.How? Nobody knows.Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...

Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword.

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?