Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

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!

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

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.

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

In all your getting, get understanding. Proverbs paraphrased

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.