Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Persist with great passion and fulfill your great dreams.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Real progress comes from people.

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.