I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad

You will only succeed in the field where your gift is

He exhaled in disgust. “High school is boredom punctuated by humiliation.

You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.