As much as I liked acting for its playfulness and the reward of hearing big laughs wash over you on a stage, I always felt I should do something that I could control.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

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.

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.