“It wasn’t about gratuitous whacking people in the head with a two-by-four. It was funny because the moments were so truthful, and I recognized them as moments in my own life. Not literally, but in some relatable way.”

“It’s an inspired piece of art. I don’t know how to quantify that or how to even talk about it,  but I know that when they made this piece of art there was so much love, all pistons firing.  Because they were creating things in ways that hadn’t been done before, and they had to ignore the fears about why it may or may not hold up.”

“The costumes are silly and the genie is kind of stupid, but it’s just got a wonderful sense of  fun and adventure. I think it’s a wonderful movie. Even now, with some of the monsters, people say, ‘Look how silly they look!’ But they work for me.”

“The idea, the whole idea behind the movie, was very strange but insanely liberating for me and very inspiring. Because it was like, ‘So you can make a movie about anything, apparently.’”