I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

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

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.