I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

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

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.