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.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

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

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.

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

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

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