When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.

I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.

With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.