Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

God is never in a hurry, but God is never late

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.