LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.