Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

I was too young to know how to love her.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.