If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

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.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.