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.

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

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.

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

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

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