If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen their profession because they have a dream of doing it and they want to express something about the world. That's the same thing that I have with writing. Most of the good actors get into it for those reason, rather than for reasons of fame or fortune, or anything like that, and that's where I'm coming from, as a storyteller.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.