I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

I have no other religion than kindness.

Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.