I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
Israel is near and dear to my heart
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.