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

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

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.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

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

I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.