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

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.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

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

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

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.

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.