Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.