It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.

No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Slogan-making is not poetry.

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Seriousness is a disease.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.