I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.