I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

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

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

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.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Never be afraid of a positive spirit who wishes you well open your door seal and leave the other mind clean and replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.

There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?