I'm A Tulsa Jew And I Have

I Thought Rounders Was A Comic Movie In Its Way. First Time I Directed A Movie, I Wanted To Do A Comedy. I Don't Like Things That Are Superficially One Thing Or Another, Mainly. My Favorite Comedies Are Really Smart, Too, And Have A Lot Of Levels To Them As Well.

I Knew Danny Devito And He Knew Me, So He Wanted Me To Try Death To Smoochy. I Loved That Stuff And Had A Great Time Doing It.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.

I Don't Think You Should Sit Around And Wait For People To Give You An Opportunity To Express Yourself Or Do Your Work, Or Whatever. Actors Have To Be Producers And Writers Have To Be Producers.

I Get Heartbroken Flying Into L.a. It's Just This Feeling Of Unspecific Loss. Can You Imagine What The San Fernando Valley Was When It Was All Wheat Fields? Can You Imagine What John Steinbeck Saw?