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My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I do not have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really do not pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I am not looking to get away from anything. I like what I have done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I do make one that I can not get yelled at for.

I like movies I can relate to.

I do not know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I do not know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they are on a kind of fantastic level.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Movies are movies, and I do not think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.

I love these movies where it is just about the film. You do not have my face on the poster. It is all about the movie. I like that.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I do not know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

The movies have got more corporate, they are making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I do not want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it is just too hard these days.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who did not before.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the 50s and 60s and 70s.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I have done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

It is like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they are, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

Most movies, once the action starts there is no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there is just explosions until the end.