The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

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.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'