Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

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

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

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

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.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.