Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

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.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

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.

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.