Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.