In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

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

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

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.