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

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

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

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.

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

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

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.