The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

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

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on.