The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

God did not just create you to be a nice person and eat hamburgers until you die

Your desire shall be your delight.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

Time is eternity begun.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.