Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

It's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, "Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you."

It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.