Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

I think that laughter is very close to terror and horror. Maybe that's just me, but that sort of all - over rush that happens when you are either laughing or terrified or weeping...? I think that comedians, in and of themselves, make other people laugh because they aren't necessarily the happiest people in the world. So they know a lot about dark things.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.