Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.

These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.