We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.

Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"