Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.