I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

Spirituality is the strength of existence.

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.

Feed a fish a cat a day