I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. It's not that they all get along, or that there aren't bad people or people we make fun of. But at the core, there's a kind of sweetness.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.