In Real Life, I Myself Am Kind

I Make Comedies And I Always Try... I Don't Try But I Allow To Have At Least 5% Of The Jokes Or Have Some Jokes That I Know Will Be Understood By Only About 5% Of The Audience. It's That Guy In The Corner Who Gets It And Laughs. But He Has To Have His Jokes Too. That's Part Of My Audience. Part Of My Audience Is The People Who Will Only Get Certain Things.

The Kindest Thing A Director Can Do Is Look With Open Eyes At Everything.

I Could Never Be A Part Of An Adaptation Of A Film Where There's Pressure To Not Disappoint The Immense Fan Base. In Those Cases, They Often Wind Up With Filmed Books On Tape, Quite Uncinematic. Having Said That, I'd Say All The Adaptations I've Done Are Quite Faithful To The Original... You Have To Pick And Choose Which Storylines And Plot Threads, Because You Don't Have The Time To Kill In The Film As They Have In Novels. All Those Pages With Detours And Plots And Different Storylines. But Films Add A Lot, And You Gotta Keep It Moving.

What Science-fiction Premises Do Is It Gives You A "what-if" Prism To Look At The Contemporary World With A Wack On The Side Of The Head.

Even If We Die At 100, We're Still Dying Young. I Want At Least 700 Years. There's A Lot Of Travelling And Books To Read And Movies To See. I'm Not Going To Squeeze It All In In 85 Years.