Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.