You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.