My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete I realized I wanted to be in movies.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time you have no desire to see them in movies.

Well it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000 when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.