Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.