On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.