All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

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

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.