I Want All Of My Films To

I Love Comedies. I Take Comedy Very Seriously As A Form. It's A Serious Form, Involving A Certain Way Of Looking At Life, Specifically The Painful Aspects Of Life. I Get Asked, "how Can You Have Such Failures In Your Films?" Well, What Else Is Life About? There's Some Sense Of Constant Failure In Something. Humor Gives You A Distance From It.

I Like Actors Who, When You See Them On Screen, You Sense A Person, Not Just An Actor.

I Spend A Long Time Casting, But Once I've Cast A Film There's A Reason Why I Selected Those People. So I'm Hands-on In Selecting The Cast, Hands-off To See What They Do With Their Characters, And Hands-on Again To Offer Suggestions.

I Think About What Movie I Would Like To See. I Don't Think Of Them As A Correction Or Palliative. I Certainly Am Irritated By Anything That's Shot In The Midwest And Filled With These Noble People. "oh, They're So Good, And They're So Honest..." I'm Not Interested In That. I Just Think Of What's Right For A Movie.

In Real Life, I Myself Am Kind Of A Rambling Guy. I Like To Travel.