The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

We have reached a time where we are suppressing talents in our communities with our common thinking.

This world is unreal and ever-changing. Only an optimist with optimum love can adjust and grow with joy.

You are learning to be an expert.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.