John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.