I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.

We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.