If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
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 felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you. "