Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

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.

People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

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?