Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.