When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

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.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I'll be back later! Put that champagne on ice!

In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.