We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

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.

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.

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.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.