When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.