I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.