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

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

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

I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

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.