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…

- Dan Scanlon

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

- Dan Scanlon

There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, e…

- Dan Scanlon

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

- Dan Scanlon

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 y…

- Dan Scanlon

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films.

- Dan Scanlon

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

- Dan Scanlon

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

- Dan Scanlon

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 …

- Dan Scanlon