Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

I don’t follow politics much.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don’t ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I’m writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading.

I’m not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

But I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I have suffered most of the things I write about – or my friends have.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.