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" A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own. "
Crazy
Fall
Own
" As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people. "
People
Good People
Good
" As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!' "
Watch
See
Fun
" As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.' "
Think
You
Care
" At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation. "
End
Ego
Day
" At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey. "
Great
People
Day
" At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it. "
End Of The Day
End
People
" At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive. "
You
End
Doing
" Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women. "
Bad
Made
Men
" 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once. "
Street
You
Tongue
" Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it. "
Beat
Kid
Comfortable
" Every director should take an acting class. "
Director
Should
Acting
" Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means. "
Age
Life
Together
" Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. "
Forty
Pretend
Line
" For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness. "
Funny
Crazy
Know
" Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic. "
Bad
Pink
Light
" God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.' "
God
Face
Say
" Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward. "
People
Say
Work
" I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated. "
Nothing
Always
Improv
" I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. "
People
Dating
Glasses
" I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything. "
Enough
You
Believe
" I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work. "
Trying
Work
Happier
" If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. "
Story
Door
Lose
" I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess. "
Comedy
Things
Happy
" I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.' "
Someone
People
Me
" I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties. But the biggest thing is when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and I think what happens with most guys is that no one wants to be an adult anymore. So they're dressing like kids. "
Love
Kid
Wait
" I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.' "
Know
Say
You
" I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain. "
People
Work
Find
" I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it. "
Back
You
Right
" I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff. "
Love
Acting
Behind
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