As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

It is better to serve than be served.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

...Skyscraper National Park

The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.