As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).

Your environment plays a key factor in living a fulfilled life. In order to bear fruit, gain fulfillment, and meet fruition, you must intentionally create an environment that will sustain you.

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

Only you can control your future.

I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in