I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.