A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Who you think you are is only a thought.