I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

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

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

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 realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.