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

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

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.

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.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

The truth can't be hidden for long.