It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.