Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction.

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once and felt so bad because the other $ 5 bill was now going to be lonely without all the other bills I had in my wallet, you just invest these dead things with life and that is our tendency as people. So animation takes advantage of that, grabs on to it, and runs with it.

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.