Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

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

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

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.

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

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.