I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.