There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.