The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

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.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.