If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.
The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
The best stories infuse wonder.
No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it. " "Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense. " "That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?
I have finished school and so it's becoming a real job, and as an actor, you cannot always just play roles. To me, it's important to live, to be who I am and then to get out of that, because when you play a role, it's always a bit of yourself. Okay, you can get some things, but that's why it's so important to gain life experience in order to act - it's important to care about this.
I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb axioms or so-called truths like they are rules. You have to test them, and you need to reflect on them, to consider the effect they create. So, you have very significant opinions about things, because they come out from your own reflections.