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

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

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

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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

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