It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen..

I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging..

I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts….

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times..

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again..

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focu….

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism..

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure..

In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his college, eventua….

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do..

I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and der….

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself..

That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about the others to justify it. It's not bad ….

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably no….

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not re….

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big rel….

For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some goo….

So something I've felt I've learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That's something I found really u….

The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others….

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends..