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.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

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

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'