The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

Love is the world's river of life

I was in chemical jail.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I liked to play dress-up.