The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

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

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

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.