- "All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."
- "Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."
- "Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
- "I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up."
- "Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters."
- "Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors."
- "I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin."
- "I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors."
- "I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires."
- "I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
- "I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
- "I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
- "In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
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