I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Strong female leads are important.

There are always myriad choices in life - some work out, some don't, and you just have to focus on the present.

Life is just a journey.

I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.

When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.