Michael T. Weiss

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

It's a wonderful acting challenge to tell a story and convey emotion with only your voice.

It's great that we can, however subtly, offer important lessons through cartoons that it's important to protect the environment.

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

The minute we became a global society, especially now that we're all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a little more interesting than their earthbound lives.

I had just gotten to the point when I could have bought any car I wanted to in America. I even looked at a Hummer. But one day I woke up and realized, how can I talk the talk without walking the walk? If you can feel good about not contributing to global change, then all the power to you, but I couldn't.