I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.