“I feel like it’s a skill that’s passable, but writing… writing is the worst. That’s what I’m doing right now, it’s just the hardest thing that you’ll ever do.”

As a director you already have a script, you have actors… you have collaborators when you’re a director.

I almost feel like I didn’t pay enough dues, it was pretty incredible. I always thought I’d work with her, I just didn’t think it would happen at this point in my career.

“A good director is one that lets you improv,” that’s ridiculous. There’s some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it’s just a case by case basis.

When you’re writing there’s no one to collaborate with, there’s no material to look at. I haven’t adapted something yet, so, I’m sure that would be helpful. When you’re writing an original piece you have nothing.

For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that’s the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to.

You know, you kinda think you’re gonna have to work for twenty years before you get to work with Meryl Streep. So getting to work with her…

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence,

It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn’t eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

It’s quick, and it makes you look and feel great!

Otherwise they’re not going to feel great when they’re up there miming it.

You feel that you can hit any pitch.

All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

I realise I’m still a child, though I do feel older.