It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.