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.

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

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

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

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.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.