The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation!

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?