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.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

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.

If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.

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

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