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

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

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

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

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

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.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.