When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Movies are not a growth business.

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.