A Lot Of Why I Do Something

The More You Do Your Homework, The More You're Free To Be Intuitive. But You've Got To Put The Work In.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew Who's Pugnacious Is A Reality. I Grew Up Around It. And I Think It's Really, Really Funny And Surprising And Unlikely.

The Incentive For Business Is Not, And Cannot, Be Anything Other Than The Root Incentive For All Business: They Must Profit.

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.

Everyone Thinks That Fight Club Is A Very Important And Successful Film, But It Was A Massive Box-office Failure. Massive. It Was A Big Flop By Any Commercial-release Standard. And It's Been A Huge Hit On Dvd. Everything That Movie Has Become Has Been On Dvd. So You Can't Stake Your Sense Of Creative Success On This Whole Box-office-performance Matrix, Because If You Do, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time.