It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

I shot "Footloose" nearby and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain in the...or have an opinion.

all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

Focus! (said a voice within me). We are here to craft emotions. To become a better person. Not to waste our serenity on someone who had a poor upbringing and are not taught manners.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.

India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.