One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

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.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I think that the world is really in very dark ages. In America this could have never been showed, we are even more lost over there than in Europe. We are very lost!

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.