I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting

For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.