Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.