I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.