I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.

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

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.

Love is where leadership begins.

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.