I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

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.

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