I'm drawn to more than I'm allowed to do or asked to do, or probably should do. My whole career has been comedy, of a kind. I guess I've always existed in that world.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

Comedy is king. It has to be.

Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable.

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

It takes a heck of a lot of courage to stay true to yourself when the world has forgotten it's way.

There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.

I don't do office work at home.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.