Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

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.

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.

I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.

I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

Luck always favors those who are bold.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.