Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

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