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

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.

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

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?

The Soul selects her own Society.

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.