One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.

Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

I don't take story input from fans.

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.