I'm Really Attracted To Authors Who Take

Humanizing Good People Is Kind Of Boring And I Don't Really See The Value In It... Humanizing Tricky Characters Is Exhilarating, And Making Audience Films Out Of Indie Subjects Excites Me.

Directing 'the Office' Is Kind Of Like Someone Going, 'would You Like To Drive My Lamborghini?' And I'm Like 'yes, I Would Like To Drive Your Lamborghini. That Sounds Like Fun.'

If Someone Else Made 'up In The Air' Or 'thank You For Smoking' Or 'juno,' I Would Have Wanted To Rip Their Head Off. I Need That Same Sort Of Passion For Every Project I Take On.

It's Easy To Get Caught Up In A Moment And Think, 'oh, I've Been Offered Some Giant Studio Film Or A Superhero Franchise Or Some Actor Wants To Meet With Me About A Project They Want To Do.' And It's Easy To Get Caught Up In A Moment Because It's Flattering. But You Can't Do A Movie Because It's Flattering.

I Used To Have A Group Called Bad-movie Saturday. Every Saturday, Six Of Us Would Go See The Worst Movie That Came Out Each Weekend. It'd Be Noon In Burbank. It Was Just A Running Commentary. All Executives - We Would Each Talk Through The Movie And Make Jokes.