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.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

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.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."