My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

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.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

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.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.