I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

It's nice to be taken seriously.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Golden possibilities exist in every adversity.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

Holding the moon in your hands, velvety, your heart beats on my lips.

I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

When one is silent, those around speak even more.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!