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.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.