If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

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.