When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
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.
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.
You monkeys only think you're running things.
I'm living in L. A. , which is hard to get around. I live way out in the suburbs, it's hard for me to get to town. You get five minutes here, then you gotta drive a half hour to the next one. New York was so much easier for standup because you could hit five clubs in a night. Just jump in a cab, pop. Boom, boom, boom. And you could walk to some of 'em, and work out stuff on the way. You can really get some more traction out there. You could work new material easier out there, I thought.