The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

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

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.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?