There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.