Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

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

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.

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