That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.