I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

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.

When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.