If People Offer Me Decent Roles In

At A Certain Point, You Have To Convince The Actors That You've Done The Right Thing. The Way I Work, If I Can't Convince Them, I've Got To Move On. I Can't Coerce Them Or Browbeat Them.

It's Like The Old Rule-if You Introduce A Gun Into The First Act Of A Play, It's Going To Be Used In The Third Act. So If You Do A Movie About Criminals, You Have To Accept There's Going To Be Some Action.

I've Got To Find A Compromise Where I Don't Feel Compromised. I've Got To Find Something Equally Good That They Don't Feel Uncomfortable With. At A Certain Point, It's No Longer About What I Thought Was Right, But It's About This New Discovery That Happens With The Actors. It's Nice When The Actor Is Also A Writer.

For Me, Most Comedy Scripts Fail In The Mechanical Playing-out Of The Setup. They'll Pay Lip Service To A Moral Lesson Or A Psychological Progression.

I Think Satire Is A Luxury Of Literate Middle-class People. People Who Are Well Fed And Relatively Secure In Their Beds Can Laugh At Their Troubles. They Can Enjoy Sitcoms. For Those Who Aren't Quite So Lucky, Well, The Irony Might Be Lost On Them.