There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

I don't know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm shopping around.

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be.

It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating

We're living in a world which gives us no chance to live".

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.

A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Passion is like waves; it comes and goes. Compassion is the constant flow.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.