If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

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.

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

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.

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

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