I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.

I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.