Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.