The laugh is what trumps everything.

The world needs less destruction.

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they were. I just said I'd do that because a friend wrote it, directed, produced, acted in it. With directing, I'm sticking to my guns, not that a lot of people are begging me to direct.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening.