I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel very fortunate that - y'know, this movie [Don Jon] - frame for frame, line for line - is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nobody made me change anything.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?