I Find Fear Is A Great Motivator

I Do Give A Great Deal Of Forethought And Zone In On Character And All Sorts Of Things Like That. Never Before Have I Just Stuffed Something Away In The Back Cupboard Of My Brain Because It Was Just Such A Crazy Concept.

'little Miss Sunshine' Was One Of Those Small Movies That You Don't Hold Out Huge Hope For. It's Usually Found In Small Pockets. But, It Ended Up Getting A Real Following And Worked Out Pretty Well.

There's Times When I'll See A Show, Or Something Cooking On Tv, And Think, "that Can Really Be Fun When It's Working." But It's A Grind. I Did That At Nbc, It Was Five Days A Week. I Was Doing Talk Soup And Later At The Same Time. It's A Hard Job, More Difficult Than People Realize.

It's Not Easy To Tell A Story About Writers And Make That Feel Like A Complete Story And An Interesting Story.

I Was 12 When My Parents Told Me We Were Moving To Lebanon. I Remember Thinking, 'leba-who?' I Had Absolutely No Concept Of The Place.