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

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

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

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

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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.

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