Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.