Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

God bears with the wicked but not forever.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.