The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Not everything set on fire will rise.

It’s what you believe about your ability that shapes your potential success.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.