The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.