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.

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.

The best stories infuse wonder.

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.

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

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

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.