I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I'd just been working with Zach Galifianakis on 'The Hangover', and I was thinking, I've got to find something to do with this guy immediately.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change - including yours. Just imagine...

It is better to think of all the beauties of life than to be bitter.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

You don't always get the dog you want, but you get the dog that you need.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.