If Jimmy Kimmel didn't hire me, I wouldn't have the kind of career I have. And I don't know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.
In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing them.
I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.
I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.
At the same time most people were getting out of college, I was offered a buttload of cash to star in a movie. I don't think most students would have said no.
When I first started directing, I could have chosen a more lucrative path, with sitcoms and things like that. But I knew enough after the experiences I had in front of the camera that I was not going to do that, because I was just going to work on my own things or work with people I respected.
The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.
'The Blair Witch Project' is a great movie.
I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'
People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.
Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.
I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.
I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.
My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.
I would love to make a horror picture!
I'm not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.
I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.
When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.
My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.
