To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.