Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.

There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

When you work on a movie or a TV show, you're a family, so if something that's a two-minute thing in the movie is causing a rift in the family, you also have to think about at what point do you fight this, and at what point is this rift worth having in this very small, very tight group of people who are just there to make something great and funny.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.