Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.