One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Pulled pork jokes never get old.

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.