I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.