I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.