My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

Do things the ego does not like to do.