I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.