Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, "Why did my line count drop?" It's a nasty tense environment.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

When you screen it the first couple times, you're just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit. So you're doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it's working, and at that point, it's 50/50 as far as what's funny and what's working. Sometimes you'll put something in and it will just die so hard that it'll almost kill the movie.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.