I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

I like underwater life.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

To hate is to harm.

The mind is not something we own, it is something we share

Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.