I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.