You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

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.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.