I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. But if you run with dogs, you will learn how to bark.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

I think I'm more of a guardian angel girl.

Your energy of love is so powerful that it can heal anything, including your future.

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

I want to keep winning, the hell with the record.