Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don't think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.