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

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

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.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

I threw tantrums, I acted stubborn, I was a pain sometimes, but I was still loved. In fact, I was their perfect even in my imperfection.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.