We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.

You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds... and Francis Ford Coppola.

I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.