I'm Definitely Not A Nerd.

I Went To A Public High School And Most Of The Comedy Was Coming From The Black Kids And The Asian Kids And The Hispanic Kids. And, The Coolest Kids To Me Where Always The Black Kids. They Were Always Fashion Forward And They Always Dressed The Coolest. They Were Always The Best Dancers, And Just The Coolest People.

The Producer Can Put Something Together, Package It, Oversee It, Give Input. I'm The Kind Of Producer That Likes To Take A Back Seat And Let The Director Run With It. If He Needs Me, I'm There For Him. As A Director, I Like To Have The Producer There With Me. As A Producer, I Don't Want To Be There Because I Happen To Be A Director First And Foremost, I Don't Want To "that Guy."

Do I Have A Small Movie In Me? Yeah, Probably, When I'm 60. But I'm Not Hal Ashby, I'm Not Roman Polanski. I'm True To Myself. Whether You Like It Or Not.

Miami Beach - That's Where I Grew Up, In A Middle-class Jewish Family Led By My Maternal Grandfather. Me, My Great-grandmother - A Holocaust Survivor, Who Was My Roommate - My Grandparents, My Mom And Her Brother All Shared A Four-bedroom House.

You Can't Reinvent The Wheel. You've Got To Just Take The Best From All The Other Shows And Try To Make It Work, Because There's The "live Show Gods" That Dictate If There Are Going To Be Any Surprises, If There's A Very Commercial Film That's A Best Picture. There Are A Lot Of Things That Are Out Of My Control, But I Do My Best.