I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

Become your dream.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.