Sometimes Creativity Is A Compulsion, Not An

I Like To Get Into A Lot Of Things Besides Movies. I've Been Very Involved With A Few Specific Efforts. We Built This Park In New York And It's Been A Very Successful Project... I Worked On A Conservation Project In East Africa... Too Much Of This Type Of Stuff Can Get You Wrapped Up In Your Own Work And I Love It.

I Thought Rounders Was A Comic Movie In Its Way. First Time I Directed A Movie, I Wanted To Do A Comedy. I Don't Like Things That Are Superficially One Thing Or Another, Mainly. My Favorite Comedies Are Really Smart, Too, And Have A Lot Of Levels To Them As Well.

I Think Technology Is Having A Democratising Effect On Film.

I Do Find Myself Drawn More To Pieces That I Feel Are Wrestling With The Way That We're Living Now, What We're All Going Through.

For Keeping The Faith, I Looked At [george ] Cukor's Old Films Like The Philadelphia Story, Stuff That's Hilariously Funny And Really Smart With A Cutting Critique In The Humor, Too. With This, When I Read It, I Was Laughing A Lot.