I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

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.

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.