Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.

In youth the days are short and the years are long in old age the years are short and the days long.

The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.