I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.
I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
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.
Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.
In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.
I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.