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.

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.

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

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

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].

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.