I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response

BE HAPPY YOU CAN HAVE THE RICE, MANY CAN'T AFFORD THE PRICE.I CAN CONTROL MY ANGER, WHAT WILL I DO IN HUNGER ?

Five minutes ago is gone, never to be seen again. Five minutes from now, isn't here yet....What are you going to do with it?

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?