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" Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them. "

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" I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else. "

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" I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff. "

" I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient. "

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" My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. "

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