Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

That I want to try in life? There's a lot of things I want to try. There's never enough time to try anything. I would love to have a hobby. I have no hobbies.