I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning. "
I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.