To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem..

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience..

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it..

I really got into filmmaking through photography..

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways….

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you ….

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill..

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowin….

I love confidence in a guy. I don't have it, but there's nothing sexier..

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion..

To me, the script is a living, breathing organism. Comedy is something that is ever-changing and ever-flowing with the vibe and the mood of the movie..

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….

I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think people are raised by their parents. If you're ra….

How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I thi….

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..

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!.

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..

There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're ju….

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie..

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under ….