Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

If you are offered the opportunity to do something that you don’t know how to do – say yes, dive in and do it anyway.

Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

People are who they are by the way they react to things.

Believe the impossible is possible

There's an image of Rapunzel free, flying in the air, as a sunburst, which says so much. This is a girl who has to get out and bless the world.

Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

Do not expect good from another's death.

I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.