As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.