The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.