It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.