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One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.