I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

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.

The best stories infuse wonder.

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.

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

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

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.