For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.

Truth for him was a moving target he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.