What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.