I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.

I'm not blockbuster boy.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

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?