I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.
I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.
I don't think anyone says "Wow, the best sex I ever had was when I was 16 years old."
I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.
I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.
When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.
I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.
The sexual act - thinking about the sexual act, the telling about the sexual act, after the sexual act, is so much more important than the actual sexual act - just in time. It's like of the whole sexual act, you probably spend 95% of the time thinking about it, talking about it afterwards. The actually sexual act, especially when you're 17, is minutes.
People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.
When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
I never go to the monitor. I just look at the camera monitor and my favorite part of all of the directing, except for the writing and editing of it, is right when we're rolling and they do lines and I'll say "Try this, try this, try this."
You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.
There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.
In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.
To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.
