You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions.

We argue, as you know. I don't think she like me, but so what. I say how I feel. Feelings. That's all we have as human beings.' - Tommy

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed with and go.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it