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

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

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

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

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

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.