It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.