Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

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.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

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