My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

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

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.