I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

Steve Bartman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

I really don't think I could get starstruck with anybody. Famous final words, but I just don't think I could.

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it.

As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.