Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.