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.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.