You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork.

I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.