When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

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

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

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 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."

Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

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.