Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.

It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment." I feel like people go to movies for more than that.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.