To Make A Movie About Mayhem, Sometimes

Bangkok, Like Las Vegas, Sounds Like A Place Where You Make Bad Decisions.

There's Such An Awkwardness To Most Heterosexual Male Relationships. You See Women Who Are Friends, And They Kiss Each Other Good-bye, And They're Just So Much Warmer With Each Other. But There's This Thing With Guys Where, Even Between Best Friends, There's A Standoffishness.

I Find I Like To Work With A Lot Of The Same Actors, Because I Find That There's Sort Of Shorthand There, And There Is This Unspoken Trust, Both Ways. They Trust Me And I Trust Them. And I Know What I'm Going To Get From Them, To An Extent. It's Just Fun, Kind Of Creating This Little Family.

I Was Raised By My Mom. She Taught Me How To Be A Gentleman; Nobody In The Movies Taught Me. I Think People Are Raised By Their Parents. If You're Raised By Movies, It's A Whole Other Set Of Problems. I Don't Think It's As Simple As Me Saying Movies Are Meant To Entertain, But I Certainly Don't Feel Moral Responsibility In Putting This Out In The World And Being Like, "ok, This Is Going To Affect How Guys Make Decisions Because They See Some Of My Films Or Whatever." I Just Don't.

Comedy Is So Subjective. You Could Be In A Room With 400 People Laughing At A Joke And You Could Just Not Think It's Funny. You're Just Sitting There Like, 'am I In The Twilight Zone? Why Is Everyone Laughing?' It's Such A Personal Thing. People Have Such A Personal Visceral Response To Comedy.