I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.

I like digital because you can shoot for longer.

Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.

I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.

There is always a next time

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.