There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.