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

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.

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.

If you see the light of this day, thank God.

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.

When she says 'I've never done this before" she just means with you

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.