I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.