I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

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

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

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

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.

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.