The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Movies are not a growth business.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

It will be funny in about 10 years.

I only entertain very close friends.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.