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

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.

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.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

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?

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

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.