I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't "Citizen Kane" right out of the box, you know? It wasn't "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.