I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them..

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sen….

I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really grea….

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience..

Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's video for I Dr….

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serve….

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" i….

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb….

I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do….

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors..

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the la….

When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really….

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script tha….

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only va….

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn….

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total..

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films..

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words..

No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not..