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.

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

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

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

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.

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