I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.

I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

I understand the military. I know the military.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.

Financial independence is about having more choices.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I'm a Christian by choice.

Anything that's slightly dangerous and gets the heart rate going is my kind of workout.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

I'll keep going until i get to the point where i can't get out on stage.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.