I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.