[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the S….

There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids..

There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either..

Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid..

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stu….

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid..

You'd be surprised how quickly our identities evaporate when we were able to connect with people on a very personal level because we're all really tr….

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse..

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up..

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy..

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their k….

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's importan….

It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were ha….

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an ….

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage..

As a producer, the only thing you have is an opinion - and if you don't trust your own opinion, then everything becomes vanilla. And for me I always ….

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into th….

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But c….

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, an….

What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his bu….

I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid..