I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

You want people to watch what you're doing.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.