Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

You are far more than a biomass

Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.