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" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

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

" I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. "

" I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. "

" When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. "

" When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart. "

" The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. "

" I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D! "

" Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. "

" Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films. "

" 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? "

" My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. "

" I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well. "

" Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees. "

" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "

" I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. "

" 'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then. "

" I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster. "

" People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. "

" I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.' "

" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "

" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "

" I have motor oil running through my veins. "

" I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role. "

" I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. "

" The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.' "

" When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. "

" Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. "

" I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful. "

" 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar. "

" I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "