I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.