I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.