Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

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.

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

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.

The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.