Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it again and iterate. So I think that's a real key to the films that we've made.

Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction.

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used.

Yeah, to bring families together I need to go away.

Vision inspires and clarifies what needs to be done in the present to achieve the promise of the future.

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence