If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.

I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to edit for the rest of my career, but it's not like that was all I did and then somehow I grew into directing a movie.

We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.

When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.