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The First Thing That I Learned - And I Understood It At A Really Young Age - Was That I Could Get A Laugh. Really Early. Because My Mother And Father Are Funny.

It Is A Question In That Case Of Breaking Up One Piece Of Art, And Whether That Piece Of Art Can Be As Best As Possible Put Back Together. So It's An Argument To Say, Maybe That's One Of Those Instances, Like The Bust Of Nefertiti, I Think That Should Be Given Back [egyptian Piece Currently In Neues Museum In Berlin]. It's One Of Those Pieces You Look At And Think That Would Probably Be The Right Thing To Do.

It's Hard To Find Actors That Don't Feel Contemporary When You Put Them In A Period Piece.

I Can't Give You 150 Takes. I Can't Even Give You 30 Different Ways Of Doing It! I Don't Have The Talent Or The Range For It.

If You're Going To Do A Romantic Comedy It Was About Housing It In Something That We Haven't Seen Before.