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.

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

Quality is the best business plan.

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

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

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