I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.