I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.