The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

Within the 24 hours, make some time for your own work.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.