When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.