Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.

The worst enemy in life is resentment.

Trust God that you are where you are meant to be.

I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.