As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

Humor writers:1) Write2) Laugh3) Laugh when they write4) Write when they laugh

Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last—the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring.

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.