When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

I love working with actors. I do.