The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.