I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.