Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

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.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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.

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

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.

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