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.

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

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

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.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

The best stories infuse wonder.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.