Occupation: Film Director Birth: December 3, 1965
I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just….
I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar..
I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig..
Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels..
I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to ho….
I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same ….
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances..
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..
No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers..
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do..
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good..
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..
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not..
Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two..
Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story..
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it..
There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence..
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die..
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..
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care..
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 ….