As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

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.