An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Watch out for cliffs on the left. Fatal spot again.

Everything in nature is resurrection.