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

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

Story telling is joke telling.

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

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

The best stories infuse wonder,

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.

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.'

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

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

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

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.

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

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

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

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

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

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

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.

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.

If you want someone's attention, whisper.

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

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

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

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

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