When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.

I like digital because you can shoot for longer.

Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.

I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

Love builds a bridge. Hate builds a wall.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.