Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You’ve got to have a great imagination.
You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
I dream for a living.
When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
I love editing. It’s one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
If movies generically don’t work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You’ll only want to have a god time.
The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
I am a very impatient director.
If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it’s popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they’ll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
I think all directors should be animators...
The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.
It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.