It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the screen, and not pick up on it, then it deserves to be in the movie. But if they had more overt things, I'd often tell them to cut it out. In general, as long as they captured the spirit of the character, then they're fine. But sometimes it took a while, and we had to replace a lot of animators.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.