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As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work.

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

I'm a really big fan of Bill Murray.

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I liked Jim Carrey from the very beginning.

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I've been such a big fan of his acting.