Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.