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

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

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?