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

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

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

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

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

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.

I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.