Once You're Alienated, You're On Your Own.

We All Wish We Could Be In More Than One Place At The Same Time. People With Families Feel Guilty All The Time-if We Spend Too Much Time With Our Family, We Feel We're Not Working Hard Enough.

If You're Doing Six Takes, Instead Of Doing Six Variations On The Same Words, Why Not Just Throw Out The Words And Make Them Up As You Go Along, If You're Comfortable With It? It Gives The Movies A Slightly Rangier Feeling, And More Of An Accidental Feel, But It Also Makes Them Edgier.

I Made A Handshake Agreement With My Best Friend In College, Michael Shamberg, Who Is Now A Movie Producer. We Used To Write Shows Together, And We Said, "let's Only Do What's Fun. Let's Never Take A Job Where We Have To Dress Up In A Suit."

I'm Thinking Of Doing A Marital Comedy For One Of The Studios, But I Want It To Be So Painful That It'll Have A Profound Effect On Married Couples Who See It Together.

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.