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.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

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