In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.