In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

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 only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

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.'

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

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

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.

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

I believe God is in the details.

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.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

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?

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

I love working for a company full of geeks.

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

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

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

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

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

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.

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.