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.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

One size does not fit all.

Culture changes with economic development.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.