As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

Sometimes you fail

God's grace will not take you where it cannot keep you.

I love you more than my own skin.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.