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

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

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

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

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.

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.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.