Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he’d thrown in there.
Obviously, technology is moving and reshaping itself, radically, every day. We’re all capable of answering that question within ourselves. Would you do it for the person that you love? Would you be married to a hard drive, essentially?
You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it’s really gotta be about the work and what you’re focusing on.
For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?
It’s absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.
I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.
I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That’s really it. There was no YouTube. You’re in France and you’re raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.
When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn’t going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.
I don’t do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I’m just gone.
The funny thing is you oddly don’t really say goodbye to all the characters you’ve played. There’s like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They’re always around. I’m not sure if that’s healthy. But they’re all there.
I’ve always been frightened of karaoke, so I’ve never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!
I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.
What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images...
I’ve been told I smell good. I don’t look like I smell good.
It’s a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.
Some filmmakers go into a film and it’s already shot and cut in their head.
The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don’t like when things make sense. I prefer if they don’t.
Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It’s always nice that someone appreciates your work.
My kids, they’re my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.