Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.

I'm not like a high intellectual.