It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.

There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.

One of the important things to look at is kids who aren't cheerleaders or aren't the student-body presidents. In 'Daddy Day Care,' one of the kids would only communicate in Klingon. I get that kind of a kid.

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.