I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, ' says the White Queen to Alice.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.