One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.