Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.