I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

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.

My own parents were touchy-feely.