You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

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

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

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

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.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.