At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's a discovery. It's not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.

Back in the days before the Internet, there was no place to put a short film, so Mike Gribble and Spike Decker had this festival of animation. My student films got selected.

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.