Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.

I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.

I'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

Babies laughing is like opium.