Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.