I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.