I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

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

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

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