The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

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

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

At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.