I like to get up in the morning and see people.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I'm too old to be forced.

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

Wraith rubbed his hands together in cheesy horror-movie glee. “Join us or die.” He grinned. “I’ve always wanted to say that.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.