You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

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.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

God’s Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.