I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

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.

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

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.

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

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

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.