Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

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.

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

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