And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

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

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

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.

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.

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