The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.