I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

You can all go to hell

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

If you try me, I will make you famous.

America needs rebooting.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.