Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.