The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.