There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

Our play is not something separate from our spirituality

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates.