I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there.

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.

There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

There's no shame in being crazy.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

You see something you like?

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.