There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

It's nice to be taken seriously.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Reaping from an opportunity is intelligence

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.