I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Purrrrrrrr” Elizabeth kneaded Vlad's pecs. “I hear a Kitty!” Vlad’s eyes sprung open. There was a moment of hurt, of sad. There was no kitty. “You’re teasing me!" — Bats

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

New arts destroy the old.

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.