Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.

Maybe the most annoying questions is: "Where do you see yourself in so many years?" It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it.

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?

There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.

You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.

It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?