But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

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.

It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.