Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.