I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book David and Goliath, writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.