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.

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom.

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

What else is belief but direction?

You need the art in order to love the life.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.