I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.