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

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.

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

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.

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.

Pick a mentor. The role of a mentor is to monitor your movements. When you desire to move the positive way and you connect with someone who thinks the negative way, you can’t get there!

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.