19 Quotes by Byron Howard

A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.

Oh, I like Roger Moore - he's cheeky.

You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.

Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you'd never know if you were going to hear back or not.

One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.