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

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!

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.

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

His Christianity was muscular.

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.