Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
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.'
Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
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.
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.
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.
I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
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.
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.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
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.
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.
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.
There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
