People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?