I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

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

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'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.

Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

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