I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.
I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.
I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to things, and there's my kids, and I need my sleep, and then there's being married - gotta check in on that, too.
Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.
Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.
I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.
Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.
I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.
Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.
If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.
On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
