I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

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.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Personally I prefer Gospel music.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.