At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.