A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them.
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.
I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.
I think actors who take things too far are funny.
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
