My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.