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.

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

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

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.

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