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

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.

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

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?

Don't tawch meh matherfawker!

For the Christian, peace is not simply the absence of conflict, or any other artificial state the world has to offer. Rather it is the deep, abiding peace only Jesus Christ brings to the heart.

Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.