Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Why do I write?To be somewhere elseTo get free of ourselvesTo stopTo stop being anything or anywhere at allTo disappear

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

The trade is so easy for me. It's so obvious what's happening when our companies are flocking out. I am going to fix our trade, I am going to bring jobs back to America.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

It is truly one day at a time.

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.