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

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.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.