It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Your calling is your destiny

The open road, at night, looks like life.There's only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit.

Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

It seemed a good idea at the time.