I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.