When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.