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.

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

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.