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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.