Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.