Quotes About Connection

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

I miss Pittsburgh.

I am a Pittsburgh girl at heart.

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

I never wanted my kids to have the experience of not knowing me or where they came from. I never want them to wonder, 'Did he love me?' I want to be there at the pivotal moments, for them to know how proud I am of who they are becoming.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

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'm still a fan of the Pixies!

When I made 'Pizza,' all I had in my mind was to make the film reach as many people as possible.

There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.

If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

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

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

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

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

I get very attached to places.

A lot of times, you land in a city, and you're like, 'This is not my people.' I'm gonna do the show, but you don't feel like this is for you. And then, some places, you just go and just fall into a groove, and you're like, 'This feels right.'