There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.