I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.