In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see over and over again, then I'm there.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.