What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.