You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.