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

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.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.