I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God’s likeness

Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld

Those teetering on madness hold keys to doors you know nothing about. You must ask yourself if these rooms are worth visiting—if in the end life would have made more sense having been in them.

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

I can't worry about what other people say.

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.