The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.

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

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

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.

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.