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.

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

Great art inspires great art.

There’s nothing that you like in this world that wasn’t influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

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

I’m twice as funny, I’m twice as smart, I’m twice as whatever when I’m around other people that challenge me.

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 mean, frankly, I’m not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I’m speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don’t go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

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

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