There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.