Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.