It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.

Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.