At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

You know that girl that always forgave you? That always loved you? That always took you back? Pretty soon, she’ll give up and find someone better.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.