It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

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.

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."

Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

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

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.