We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

One of the most scariest thing in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is...yourself

You are what you think, not what others think of you.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

We have passed a lot of water since then.

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.