In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you're more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you're not as precious with it. You feel like, 'This is going to land, and I'm going to be supported in this.'

I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.