A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

It's all just a bit of fun ...

The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

After 'Freaky Friday, ' another teen movie was not on my playlist.

I think it wasn’t the Cirque du Soleil audition that was my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it’s Rory.

Ignorance is relatively easy to cure

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.