There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

It's nice to be taken seriously.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.