On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.

Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.