I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

There is no "the secret", you are just too lazy.

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)

Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.