The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

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

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

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

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

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.