I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.