Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!