The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.

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'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.

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

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