This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

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.

Books may well be the only true magic.

I would rather know than believe.

Worry is using the incredible gift of your imagination to infuse life into something you never want to see in your world.

I can't not put humor in a book.

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

Deep down, I believed that I was supposed to win. And if I didn’t, it was because of ME.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.