Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.