A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

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.

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

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

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

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.