One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

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

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.