I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.