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

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.