The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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

I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

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

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?

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.

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