In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.
After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.
I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.
I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else.
I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.
Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.
If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.
I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.
I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.
I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.
For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.
'Warm Bodies' - I was contractually obligated to deliver a PG-13 movie. But, like, I wanted it to be PG-13 because it's for younger people, and I don't want them not to be able to see it. I mean, you have to kind of think about the marketplace as well.
I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever.
I like to branch out as much as I can, but I feel like the movies that are closest to my heart are 'The Wackness' and '50/50' - the ones that are dramedies that have that human element to them.
I watched 'Return Of The Living Dead.' That one's cool, man. I like that one.
I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.
To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.
Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes.
I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
