You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

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

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.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

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

If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.