Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

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

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.