I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.