Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

The best things in life are free

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.