I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

My dad took me to my first movie.

I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.