When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

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.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.