"When you’re writing a screenplay, it’s like you’re dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it …"

"When you’re 16, there are qualities you wish you didn’t have, and then when you’re 30 you’re like, ‘Thank god I have …"

"The kind of amazing thing is that Barbie went to the moon before women had the ability to get credit cards."

"I always think that 8, 9, 10 years old is peak kid. I was brash and unafraid and loud and big."

"[Puberty is] a shrinking. Wanting to make yourself smaller, less noticeable, take in all that spikiness and bury it. …"

"As a director, you have the job of dreaming up the movie, and then you have to get everyone else in the movie – hundr…"

"Yeah, that story’s not finished. We have more things written already and figured out for it to finish, but somebody’s…"

"The kids’ business of animation is pretty much gone at this point, but adult animation has been steadily rising for t…"

"When my career dies, and I can’t sell a project or do anything else, that’s when [Dexter’s Laboratory] will return to…"

"I think there's a part of me that feels like there is nothing else I can do."