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

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

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

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.

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

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