The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

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

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.

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