He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I'm too old to be forced.

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.