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.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

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.

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

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

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

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.