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.

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.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

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.

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

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

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.