My first love will always be movies.

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.

I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.

I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or not which is for Amazon.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

As sure as the driven rain, the sun will shine again!

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all the tropes, and you know all the expressions.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

I have to defend my husband.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.