When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

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.

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.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

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?