I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?