Quotes About Inspiration

I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.

Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.

I'm still a fan of the Pixies!

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

I used to hang out with a group of aspiring directors before 'Pizza' happened. We used to discuss a lot of stories all the time.

I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I did, I'd never leave the house - you'd find me in six months, dead under a pile of pizza boxes.

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

Three decades ago, in a top story of the century, Americans placed six flags on the Moon. Today we no longer try for new and bold space achievements; instead, we celebrate the anniversaries of the past.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

Since I was a kid, I always felt like God had placed something inside my heart. And I always believed that God was going to do something great in my life. But I didn't know the road that I was going to take to get here. And especially losing my wife.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.