You can kind of feel when things are going to work out

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.