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

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.

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.

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.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

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