What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

Change won’t happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we’ll never stop digging until we find our gold.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Women power is a formidable force.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.