The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

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

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Great art inspires great art.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

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

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.