The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
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 number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that. . . you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you. . . ' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment. " I feel like people go to movies for more than that.
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.