I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.