Germany's Amongst My Top Three Places In

When You Go Out To Make Something, You Want It To Be Great. You Need To Put A Bubble Around That, So No One Can Get Into The Force Field And Change What You're Setting Out To Make. That's All Us Being Producers Is Doing, Is Allowing Our Power To Protect The Integrity Of What You're Doing.

If You're Trying To Make Someone Happy, You Gotta Try And Make Them Happy. If You're Trying To Have A Normal Conversation, You've Got To Have A Normal Conversation. If You're Trying To Make Them Sad, You've Got To Make Them Sad. I Think That's How You Get Real Performances Out Of People.

Albert Brooks Is Definitely One Of My Biggest Influences, For Sure.

I Started Writing And Acting In These Little Plays And Then I Was Discovered By Dustin Hoffman. He Got Me My First Audition For A Film He Was In, Called 'i Heart Huckabees.'

I Would Never Remake Something That Was Like "the Godfather." Things That Are Truly Important To Me, I Could Never Remake Or Reboot, Or Whatever.