It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen?

He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky, And ask myself: was I meant to be here...why?

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

I never took any vocal training

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.