Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

Appreciation generates energy, like thankfulness creates increase.

Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.

If you want to see what your truly committed to, look at your results.

How could such a beautiful man be insecure?

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.