Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.