I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

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.

We are what we believe we are!

Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul.

Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.

Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.

My lungs falter short in breath by just the very thought of you.

A child can educate just about anybody.

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.