(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

Its not who you love. Its how.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.

Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.