I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.