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

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.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

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

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

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

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.