With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.