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

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.

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

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.