One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.