The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.