It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.

I remember the Time review [on the Hit and Run]said that there wasn't one laugh in it. And I had watched the movie 50 times with audiences, and it always played great. There was certainly a moment where you could tell the audience was like, "Wow, this is really getting weird."

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

I feel like it's a golden age for television.

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.